Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 4-25-1995 |
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ASB238 2000 Fall – 2012 Spring |
LEC 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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Archaeology
of N America |
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Introduction
to North American prehistory. Prerequisites: None. Course
Attribute(s): General Education Designation: Historical
Awareness - [H] General
Education Designation: Social and Behavioral Sciences - [SB] |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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ASB238 2000
Fall – 2012 Spring |
Archaeology of N America |
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List and discuss major events in the history of American
archaeology. (I) |
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Explain theories and evidence for the peopling of North America.
(II) |
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Trace changing subsistence patterns in several prehistoric
North American cultures as they occur through time. (II, III, IV) |
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Compare regional adaptations in various environments of several
prehistoric North American cultures. (IV) |
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Analyze the differences in social organization between at
least two prehistoric North American societies. (IV) |
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Explain the consequences of European contact with Native
Americans. (V) |
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MCCCD
Official Course Outline: |
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ASB238 2000
Fall – 2012 Spring |
Archaeology of N America |
I. Building of American
Archaeology A. Myth of the mound
builders B. Early archaeologists C. Birth of culture history
D. Science and archaeology II. The Paleo-Indians
A. Debate over the timing
of the origins B. Genetic evidence C. Clovis culture D. Megafaunal
extinctions III. Hunting and Gathering
Cultures A. Post Clovis Paleo-Indians B. Origins of foragers and
hunter-gatherer lifeways IV. Regional Variation A. The Great Plains 1. The Plains environment 2. Plains Archaic and bison
hunters 3. Later Plains farmers, gatherers,
and hunters B. The Far North 1. The Arctic environment 2. Na-Dene and Aleut Eskimo
traditions 3. Eastern Arctic (e.g. Thuleeg, Norton and Dorset) C. The West and Great Basin
1. The western and Great
Basin environments 2. Early hunters and gatherers
on the west coast 3. Later prehistoric
societies on the Pacific coast 4. The Great Basin Desert
Archaic 5. Fremont and Great Basin
horticulture D. The Northwest Coast 1. The Coastal environment 2. Hunting, gathering and
fishing with abundance 3. Rise of chiefdoms E. The Southwest 1. The southwestern
environment 2. The Archaic and origins
of agriculture 3. Pueblo societies 4. The rise of irrigation
agriculture in southern Arizona F. The Eastern Woodlands 1. The eastern environment 2. Archaic cultures and
origins of agriculture 3. Maritime tradition in
the northeast 4. Interaction and exchange
5. Woodland, Adena, Middle Woodland and Hopewell 6. The Mississippian
climax: Cahokia and Moundville 7. Algonquians and Iroquois
confederacies V. The Archaeology of
European Contact A. History of contact B. Consequences of contact |